Enabling personalised advice appointments for landlords and tenants through the project ‘Sustainable Tenancies’, designed to raise awareness of housing rights & responsibilities with a focus on recent and forthcoming changes in energy regulations.

A grant to fund the development of training materials and video clips for tenants.

Leeds University Students Union: £11,989

An innovative project providing advice and support for students moving into the private rented sector; including a buddying scheme.

Brent Private Tenants’ Group: £18,650

A grant to develop training and advice services for migrant and refugee renters.

Stride Partnership: £10,640

Funding for a 12 month series of tenants training and workshops.

Cardiff Tenants and Residents Association: £10,000

This is a grant to establish a dedicated website providing advice to tenants in Wales.

EFA London: £12,396

This is a programme to provided training for tenants in East London on their rights and responsibilities.

Law for Life: £20,000

A follow on project developing advice and training materials for tenants.

4 The Community: £12,550

This is a project based in Rhyl to provide advice and support to tenants living in HMOs on their rights and responsibilities.

Ealing Equality Council: £3,612

This project has funded a series of 24 free walk in surgeries on tenants rights in Ealing.

Young Enterprise and Personal Finance Education Group (PFEG): £20,000

This project helps young people in their transition into independent living by providing a new financial education teaching resource for 14-19 year olds. The resource provide young people with information on the housing market, the options available to young people when they leave home, and the costs they will need to prepare for.

Warrington Youth Club’s ‘Positive Life Skills’ programme helped young care leavers in their transition from carers to an independent lives. The TDS Charitable Foundation grant helped this hard to reach group as they prepared for their transition from carers to independent living, providing workshops on their rights and responsibilities as tenants.

Unipol Student Homes: £10,112

Unipol provided a new website for Accreditation Network UK (ANUK). ANUK promotes landlord accreditation programmes across the UK and the improved website, managed by Unipol, includes a directory of landlord accreditation schemes and downloadable accreditation handbooks. It also contributes towards one of their core aims, in the promotion of proper complaints processes to be transparent, rapid, and known to tenants. The ANUK website can be found here: http://www.anuk.org.uk/

NUS Ready to Rent: £17,295

The funding was used to extend the Ready to Rent programme to Further Education Student Unions and to parents and teachers. Ready to Rent was originally launched with the support from the Foundation, and has become well established as a resource and training provider.

Advice4Renters: £6,460

Selective licensing of landlords was due to be introduced in Brent in January 2015, and the grant was used to fund a leaflet and education for tenants in Willesden Green explaining the selective licensing scheme. AdviceforRenters Guide Feb 22 2015 compressed

KIC FM: £6,000

Awareness campaign by a youth community radio station, creating social media and other online resources on tenants’ rights and responsibilities, and ‘on the ground’ activity in the Wolverhampton area.

Keyhouse: £6,000

Funding for open door events in Keighley and Bradford with talks, information, and educational materials for private landlords, to advance knowledge around housing rights and their obligations.

National Union of Students: £20,000

The grant was for the delivery of a tenant training programme for students, rolled out through students’ unions across the UK. The training equips students with the knowledge and understanding they need to make a success of their time in the private rented sector, both during their student careers and beyond; develop a cohort of ‘pathfinders’ in the sector whose knowledge and understanding will spread to others they live and have contact with; improve communication between landlords and tenants; and improve the confidence of student tenants in advocating their rights. http://readytorent.nus.org.uk/

Chartered Institute of Housing:£6,300

The funding supported a complete revamp of the CIH online information service http://www.housing-rights.info/ to fully cover the private rented sector aimed at both existing and prospective tenants and their advisers. It is of particular benefit to recent migrants who are often forced into poorer parts of the sector and are unaware of their rights and find it difficult to access advice services.

The project produced equalities/discrimination guidance for private landlord groups, the National Landlords Association, housing associations, Welsh local government and Citizens Advice Bureaux, which can be adapted to local circumstances. The Guidance document covers the Common Housing Register and equality laws, landlord and tenant case law examples, a ‘know your tenant’ guide, a list of contact details for local and national equalities organisations that landlords and tenants can access for further advice and support. caerfilly county council landlord guide

Generation Rent:£2,500

The grant paid for the production and distribution of an engaging “Know Your Rights & Responsibilities” poster and a guide to renters’ rights and responsibilities. The information communicates current rights and responsibilities under the law and list resources for further help, with space for each local area to list local resources.